Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 9780393350425
ISBN-13 : 0393350428
Rating : 4/5 (428 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Download or read book Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protégé, and as deep personal and literary allies.


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